In the opening episode of Season 2, we step into a world on the brink of collapse—political violence, religious certainty, and a people desperate for God to step in. As competing voices promise salvation through power, John Mark offers a better, but unsettling, alternative. His observations may hit closer to home than we’d like. Mark…
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S02-e01: Jesus Wins! Introduction The year is 66—three and half decades after the events of Jesus’s ministry. Florus, the Roman official holding the same office that Pilate once occupied, attempts to seize funds from the Jerusalem Temple treasury. After decades of mounting tension between Jerusalem and Rome, this act was the match that lit the…
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Most Christians see resurrection as something that happens after we die — the promise of heaven in the sweet by-and-by. But what if that’s only half the story? In the final episode of Season One, we return to the mountain with Jesus and discover that resurrection isn’t just our future hope — it’s a present reality. The…
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s01-e12: On Earth as It Is in Heaven Introduction Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus as central to our faith. And that’s true. But our understanding of it is warped—like the distorted image in a carnival mirror, where parts of reality are magnified way out of proportion, while other parts are diminished into almost nothingness….
Read Mores01-e11: What Does God Look Like? Introduction My friend, Gary Christy, said something in a sermon recently that jumped out and grabbed me. One moment I was sitting quietly in a Sunday morning service, and the next my mind was racing down a path through history and scripture, furiously connecting dots that I hadn’t seen…
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Good Church People have a problem with legalism. It’s a problem they recognize, but they can’t seem to rid themselves of it. The source of their legalism is in a place they’re afraid to look. It’s in the black box at the core of their faith. The black box that tells them who God is,…
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s01-e10: Hic Sunt Dracones Introduction One of the byproducts of a law-based understanding of God’s will, is a necessary fixation on knowing what is core. Which of the laws are essential to our salvation—to pleasing God—and which will He give us grace on? The answer to this question is the key to being right with…
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Is it a persistent illusion, or delusion, that we see ourselves as inherently better than the ancient followers of God? We scoff at their faithlessness. Why couldn’t they see the truth of what was going on? Why didn’t they listen to the prophets? Why did they worship those silly idols? We think if we had…
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s01-e09: The Yeast of These Introduction When you read the gospel of Matthew with open eyes, one of the surprises is seeing who Jesus invites into the kingdom of heaven, and who is left out. Those closest to Jesus are continually astonished — often scandalized — by his choices. And we should be, too. If…
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The ten chapters of Matthew 13—22 are about the same thing, and it’s one of Matthew’s central ideas. But it’s likely not something you learned about in church.
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Jesus for Sex Workers, Church People, and Me is a podcast hosted by Todd Austin.
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